Re: [xsl] Namespaces best practice in XML

["tom tom" <tomxsllist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

path-default-namespace is exactly what I am looking for, I didn't know this 
existed.

One further question:

If I (using saxon8) apply the following XSLT:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.eeeeee.com"; 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xhtml"/>
<xsl:template match="ppp" priority="2">lllllllllllllllllll</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

to the following XML

<ppp xmlns="http://www.eeeeee.com"; 
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";>ddd</ppp>

The match="ppp" does not get invoked yet I have declared the default 
namespace to be the same namespace as <ppp> is in in the XML. Why does this 
happen?


> From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Namespaces best practice in XML
> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:28:57 +0100
>
> > at I need this stylesheet to be
> > as accessible to as many people as possible. Having to prefix all source 
> XML
> > elements in the XSLT when that prefix doesn't physically exist in the 
> XML
> > adds a level of complexity that non-namespace-savvy developers might 
> find
> > confusing.
>
> I think people get used to this pretty quickly (if they look at xsl for
> very long at all) if in the stylesheet you declare a prefix a: and then
> select a:foo that means select foo in that namespace, whatever prefix
> (including no prefix at all) is used in the source file. the source file
> doesn't have to use the same prefix a:. This is just a general rule: there
> is really nothing special about the so called default namespace here.
>
> Although having said that, a lot of people did apparent;y want to use
> non-prefixed element names to refer to namespaced elements in XPath so
> in XPath2 (and so in XSLT2) you will be able to set the default Xpath
> element namespace, and have everything that you want.
>
>
> > use a version of HTML which doesn't require a namespace declaration
> which of course is _all_ versions of html. Namespaces don't apply to
> HTML, only to XHTML (all versions of which do require the elements to be
> in a namespace, sadly different namespaces for XHTML 1 and XHTML 2)
>
>
> David
>
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